r/namethatbook

Looking for a book that I checked out of the library when I was a teen. I very vaguely recall the specific plot details but the cover stays in my mind for some reason, and I want to put a name to it.

It was centered on two teens, one boy and one girl. Either the boy or the girl was embarking on a trip to find their father who abandoned them(?, may be confusing this w some other book) and the other agrees to help them. The male lead had a crush on the female lead, but she wasn't into men, but they end up becoming close friends anyway.

The book had nothing to do with hedgehogs or even any animals in general, I think the hedgehog may have been a toy/keepsake one of the main characters had and was a plot point.

i don't remember much but I do vaguely remember certain things about the book, it was a children's book, it was a series of books, it was thin, im 90% sure it had a reading format similar to captain underpants ( on picture under one or two paragraphs in a page), I'm also 99% sure there was no magic or some supernatural phenomena it was just some kids experience of middle school, the style of art is also hard to recall but I'm 80% sure it was something like fairly odd parents i don't exactly remember all the contents but i vaguely remember the main character using his money that his mother gave him for some other person (i think it was lunch) and used said money to buy some pencils from the shop in his school (YES IN HIS SCHOOL i believe this is something unique about the book i don't see it mentioned anywhere else) before it started, i also have a pictorial memory of a page where there were several kids running outside where the grass was like a parabola underneath the text, i also have memories of pizza and sticky notes on walls but those are very faded. outside of this i don't have lots of information about it but i really loved that series and i wanna experience that again

From what i remember the contents of the book were not just about space but also various other topics like biology and physics, IIRC i recieved the book around 2012-2014 if not earlier as a gift. It was not a childrens book and it was quite thick.

(i was pretty young when i recieved it and lost it while moving to a different city so there might have been less or more on the cover)

This is a very vague memory I have of a book I was read at primary school when I was about 7 or 8, in the mid 90s. I remember very few details of the book bit I do clearly remember that the novel centres on an isolated allied tank which has to evade Nazi forces to regroup with the Allies. The only specific scene from the book I remember is that there is a moment when the tank has to rush for cover in a forest so that it isn't spotted by a German airplane.

I realise this isn't much to go on, but I now have a son of my own who is really getting into reading and I'm trying to wrack my brains for books I reviewed when I was a child for him to read. As you can tell I can't remember many specifics, but I do remember that I found the book exciting and engaging as a young child so I thought I would check in case someone could help track it down!

hi again! this book is so nostalgic for me! it’s about a girl who helps I believe a swan get better near a lake behind a hospital. if I’m not mistaken, a boy with cancer ends up wanting to adventure with her. they end up liking each other but the book ends with I believe the boys surgery for cancer went great! and the swan successfully flew away? Does anyone know what this could be?

I read this book between 2020 and 2023.

I think everyone else in the experiment including the other participants were in on the fact that it was all fake. At some point I think one of the other participants in the experiment "dies", or at least to the main character it seems like something went seriously wrong with that participant, so she tries to escape. Then at the end her parents show up and tell her that everything was a test to she whether she'd blindly follow orders from authority or if she would try to do what's right for her/others, and she passed their test by trying to escape the facility where the experiment was taking place.

For some reason I keep thinking the title is One of Us is Lying (but of course it isn't), so maybe it's similar to that title. Maybe the word/number 5 was in the title too? Perhaps something to do with the number of people who took part in the experiment.

ok we've got little to go on here.

a book i read as a teenager so probably published in the mid to late 90s. i probably got it as a library book.

literally all i can remember is it involves a teenage girl, i think from a wealthier family, running away. i think she was trying to help a "less fortunate" friend.

she ends up sleeping rough and sharing a sleeping bag with a boy for warmth. and implied sex.

i think it was set in Zurich or another European city.

(i got it mixed up with another book from that time called Frozen Waterfalls which is set near Zurich which is why I'm not certain of the city)

this has been niggling at me for ages.

I've been trying to rediscover this book for a little over a year now. I'm afraid I don't remember a whole lot of details, but I'll share what I can.

As far as when I read it, it would have been sometime between 1997-2002. I have always been an avid reader of fantasy, and I was always looking for anything that even remotely featured medieval fantasy, knights, swords, dragons, magic, etc. I discovered this book in my school library. I wish I could say I remember details about the cover, but anything I suggest may be incorrect. I want to say the cover was mostly white, and I don't *think* it featured any characters on the cover, but again, I'm not sure. I want to say it was a hardback cover, don't know if that helps. My guess is that I read the synopsis on the back or something and that's how I knew it was fantasy or medieval related.

As far as the story itself...it's hazy, not gonna lie. The main character was female. I'm pretty sure she was described as having red or ginger hair. I believe she had a desire to be a knight, and I think a good portion of the early story was her training as a squire or page under a male knight. I think there were a lot of scenes that took place during training, like in a training hall, or something.

At some point romance does happen, and it's part of the reason that I remember this book. Or rather, have been trying to remember this book. My significant other and I were having a discussion about romantasy novels, and I was trying to recall the first time that I (as a young teenage boy) stumbled into a romance/fantasy by accident due to my obsession with fantasy stories. I remember being a bit surprised when the story starting going in that direction. I don't think the romance was the big focus of the story, but it did happen, a few times.

Now I have done the precursory google search of "Young Adult Fantasy Female Knight Red Hair". Alanna is the top result, but I don't recognize the cover. I'm not saying it couldn't be it, but I would think that if I saw a cover that is close to what I saw back then, it would spark some memory.

I also think the story ended up being more grounded fantasy than high fantasy? I don't recall anything like actual magic or fantasy races in it. Anyway, that's I got.

YA fantasy set in another world. I read it between 2004 and 2010 as a teen. I found it in my local library in the YA section. It was more or less age-appropriate. I unfortunately do not remember anything about the cover, but I do know it caught my eye while browsing the shelves

It’s about an orphan boy working in a mine or something to collect magic/dust/powder/something. The magic stuff turned his hair white and made him sick. There was also a girl character who was of a higher standing than he was, and they became friends. The boy was recognized as a chosen one of sorts and a magical official pulled him out the child labor situation. He may have been an Oracle or something like that for their religion? The boy was pretty sick towards the end if I remember correctly. I am fairly sure that it’s hinted that the official that pulled him out ends up being his father. There may have been a deity involved—I’m not sure.

This has been driving me insane for years! Any help would be wonderful.

An evil sorcerer wants to kill a baby princess and drops her in the forest, and wolves take her in. She finds a farmer and his wife (The wife is called Octavia) who raise her teen years, and shes called back to face down a tyrant who recruits the wolves but her brother (a wolf called Luke(?)) refuses to kill her and they take on the evil sorcerer apart.

I think the evil sorcerer had a bird? I think the MC name is Lyra(?)

I'm looking for a psychological thriller I read repeatedly around 2002-2005, although I'm fairly certain it was published earlier (likely 1980s-early 2000s). It was an adult novel that I found in a little library on a houseboat at my sailing club in Ontario, Canada.

Unfortunately, I only remember the ending really well because it completely shocked me.

Plot (as best as I can remember)

An elderly, wealthy heiress is dying and decides to leave her fortune to her newly discovered granddaughter instead of her son and his wife (I believe the wife is an actress or former actress who has been involved in numerous public scandals).

The granddaughter arrives and spends most of the novel uncovering old family secrets and scandals. As the reader, you're led to believe she's an innocent victim caught up in a dysfunctional, wealthy family.

Near the end, it's revealed that she had actually researched the family before she ever arrived and had been manipulating everyone from the beginning.

Some specific details I remember:

She drowns the grandmother herself.

She stages her own poisoning to frame the grandmother's son and his actress wife.

I specifically remember that she used milk to counteract/survive the poison, making it appear someone had tried to kill her.

There is a young butler (or estate employee) who seems creepy. He and the granddaughter have a sexual relationship.

Near the end it's revealed that the butler is actually her brother (I think she may have known this and was simply using him).

I also think she kills him so he can't expose what she's done.

The biggest twist of the novel is that the woman we've believed to be the heroine is actually the murderer and mastermind behind everything.

Other things I remember

Paperback.

I vaguely remember a dark, brooding cover, possibly featuring a fence, gate, or large estate, but I'm not confident.

I always thought the author's name might have been something like Elizabeth Lyon/Lynon/Lyons, but I've never found anything under those names, so I'm almost certainly remembering it incorrectly.

I reread this book every summer because I loved the ending. It was the first thriller that genuinely fooled me.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?